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With the destruction of the ligaments, the stability of the joint is lost, and it becomes disorganised. The clinical features vary with the extent of the infection. When this is confined to the synovial and peri-synovial tissues acute serous and purulent synovitis there is the usual general reaction, associated with pyrexia and great pain in the joint.
In the tertiary stage the joint lesions are persistent and destructive, and result from the formation of gummata, either in the deeper layers of the synovial membrane or in the adjacent bone or periosteum. Peri-synovial and peri-bursal gummata are met with in relation to the knee-joint of middle-aged adults, especially women.
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